A down-to-earth farm wife whose readers across the galaxy keep clamoring for updates X a bionic commander who discovers he's the inspiration for the entire internet's restricted fiction
[Blurb]
Liao Yuwen is a rare wild author from a remote frontier planet. In an age when most humans have lost the ability to read and write due to brain degeneration, relying on AI for writing and information translation, she still insists on doing everything by hand.
Her readers binge on standardized wish-fulfillment stories produced by AI through their brain-computer interfaces, then cry their eyes out over the delicate emotions in her writing.
Liao Yuwen originally just wanted to write, farm, keep her secret identity under wraps, and live out her days in peace. Until one day, she rescues a military bionic man who has crash-landed in her potato field.
The man has broad shoulders, a narrow waist, long legs, and devastatingly good looks. Blinded by his beauty for a moment, Liao Yuwen not only pays for replacement parts out of her own pocket, but stays up all night poring over repair manuals.
But when he wakes up, he barely speaks to her and even gives her a galactic wanted-poster starter pack!
Liao Yuwen, leaving home with her precious potatoes to board the man's starship: “...”
The farmer and the snake, huh? Fine. Just fine.
That night, inspiration strikes, and she posts three chapters in a row of her new galactic serial.
New male lead: a cold, powerful bionic commander.
New plot: nonhuman characters, hurt/comfort, forced love, confinement in a locked room, mecha play...the more exciting, the better. She cranks the heat up past the limits of the galaxy.
Readers go wild: “The author's emotional modules are firing on all cylinders again! So thrilling, I love it!”
Even more fervent fans hound her for updates, leaving a hundred comments every day.
But she soon notices that the commander's gaze is getting stranger and stranger, matching the desires she's described in her writing to a T.
Worse still, he always seems to do something at just the right moment before she updates, leaving her blushing, breathless, and sometimes unable to post for days.
*
After accidentally saving the whole galaxy, Liao Yuwen returns home and is writing up a storm when her front door is blown open by a military-grade energy shield.
In walks the commander himself, who should be thousands of miles away, the man she wrote as “going seven rounds in one night and still having a sturdy frame.”
The data report in his hand clearly shows how her writing has caused his core processor to overheat.
“Ms. Liao, you are suspected of illegally obtaining military secrets. I need an explanation for the data abnormalities caused by your descriptions and our subsequent interactions, as well as your unauthorized use of my likeness.”
Liao Yuwen: “...”
All she wants to do is delete her story and run.
Can she still insist that she's just a potato farmer?
*
Later, galactic headlines explode.
“Breaking! Popular Bionic Forced-Love Web Novel Turns Out to Be a True Story!”
“Frontline Update: Commander Applies to Establish a Permanent Creative Writing Research Base on a Remote Planet, and Volunteers to Serve as Its ‘Head of Security and Housekeeper’?”
Inside the base, the once-cold weapon frowns as he carefully holds an old-fashioned fountain pen in the hand accustomed to gripping an energy rifle, scratching out crooked words on the page:
“The potatoes have been harvested today. There are 12 parts of last night's plot that don't fit human biomechanics. I suggest revising them. Or I can provide firsthand references., Your head reader and research subject, Xingyun (NA-42)”
# The whole universe is waiting for the wife to update, but the commander is waiting for her to put it into practice
# From forced love to true love: all it takes is one secret identity revealed
# I write restricted fiction, but it turns out I've already written myself into the real thing
# The whole universe is the only one who can read my writing directly, but now he seems to understand it a little too well
[Bonus Scene]
After returning to his starship badly injured, NA-42 finds an unusually high-resonance emotional data stream online.
Tracing its source, he opens the serialized novel that has captivated the entire galactic net.
Chapter one: familiar.
Chapter two: very familiar.
Chapter three: “...The commander's normally temperature-controlled bionic body triggered a heat warning for the first time.”
The silver-haired, blue-eyed, taciturn male lead, rescued by the heroine after being injured, is pinning her against the cabin wall...
He pulls up all the chapters. The keyword scan results are shocking:
- “Muscle definition”: mentioned 87 times.
- “A cold gaze kindling with dark fire”: mentioned 42 times.
- Various indescribable descriptions of intimate contact: approximately 23,000 words in total.
NA-42: “...”
He looks at the peacefully sleeping girl beside him, then at the statistics. Puzzled but earnest, he imitates the wording and tone of the comments section and writes hundreds of different comments:
“Her character this time is making my legs give out! So cold, so good!”
Original blurb dated 26.02.09
Official title: The Edge Strikes Home
Reading Guide:
1. A faux sci-fi space opera. The science is all made up. The fictional world has nothing to do with reality.
2. In this setting, most people have developed a “reading disorder” and “writing disorder” because technological evolution has caused degeneration in the angular gyrus and posterior middle frontal gyrus. They cannot read or write (that is, process written language and symbols) without relying on AI translation, but can communicate orally without difficulty.
3. The focus is on romance, with a plot as well.
4. The male lead starts out as a cold, simple-minded machine, but later develops a severe case of lovesickness. At first he scoffs; later he studies every word.
Theme: Don't write things carelessly